After the non-stop sight seeing so far I decided to take it easy today. I had vegetable omelette and toast for breakfast – I didn’t make it up it was on the menu! I then got the subway up to the silk market to get a couple of cheap t-shirts and to see if I…

After the drinks last night I was up relatively late, had a shower and then nipped out with Suzan to grab something for breakfast. I got a pancake with egg from a roadside stall. We went back to the hostel to eat and get tea to go with it. The pancake tasted ok, but probably…

I was up early to grab some breakfast before heading off at 7:30am with nine others to go on the secret wall tour. It took us a couple of hours to get there, picking up our guide on the way. We walked up a track to the wall and then for a couple of hours…

Xi’an to Beijing was by sleeper taking approximately eleven hours. The attached sums up the journey nicely! 0.amr

Apart from the noise the journey last night was ok and it would definitely have been extravagant to have splashed out the extra 200 Yuan. However, for any longer journey I think the extra space and privacy of soft sleeper is worth paying for. We arrived in Beijing at just after 7am and I met…

I didn’t sleep brilliantly last night-I guess it was either the beer (though I only had one) or the food that we tried from the bar. The first dish was fried pumpkin bread, which turned out to be tasteless things that looked like a cross between Findus crispy pancakes and those kids smiley faces made…

I had a quiet shower this morning unlike yesterday when I was subjected to a guy in the cubicle opposite singing something that I could just make out was in English. I couldn’t make up my mind whether it was in the style of an X Factor no-hoper or the Shooting Stars “club style”! For…

Despite al the sleep over the last couple of days I was still up late. After showering and checking in for another two nights here in Xi’an I headed off to the local supermarket to grab some easily digestible bananas and bread! I found somewhere to sit by the moat just outside the city wall…

Unfortunately there’s not a lot to say about my second day in Chengdu. I managed to get out of bed for a shower, some pasta and vegetables and then later some fried rice! I tried to upload my photos, but was unsuccessful as dyndns seems either to be playing up or doesn’t work properly from…

All the way through this trip I’ve been saying that I don’t understand people who go travelling and then spend all day lying in bed in the hostel. Now I think I understand why! After broken sleep on the train I then woke up at about 6am feeling sick. For the rest of the journey…